Author: BooMan

The Stakes in Libya

I’m not sure what the president’s plan is for Libya but one thing that is already obvious is that we’re not witnessing something that we’re used to seeing. I think Peter Beinart is probably onto something...

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Libyan News

Things are slowly coming together in terms of figuring out some kind of command and control system for the fighting in Libya, but it’s an eclectic and unmanageable mess at the moment. NATO is supposed to take over now that...

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State of the GOP Race

Despite being saddled with a record of enacting health care reform while governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney hopes to swamp all competition in the money race: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has quietly launched a...

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Don’t Treat the Symptoms

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic is angered and mystified that Reuters included the following passage in an article about a bombing at a Jerusalem bus stop that killed one woman and injured thirty others. Police said it was a...

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Leaps of Faith

Andrew Solomon makes a good case for why Gaddafi can’t be given any benefit of the doubt, or any deal to let him stay in power. Solomon has lived in Libya. He knows the place and the leaders better than I do. But I still...

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